Undergraduate

15-3 Finance Electives - Majors

Updated for Spring 2026

15-3 Major Requirement:
Each student must take an additional seven full subjects from the approved list of subjects below. At least two of the electives must be in the area of Core Electives in Finance, and there must be at least five full electives in total between the areas of Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance.

A full subject is either 9 or 12 units. Two 6-unit subjects are counted as one full subject.

RESTRICTED ELECTIVES

Core Electives in Finance:  
(minimum of two Core Electives in Finance. minimum of five subjects between Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance)

  • 15.4311 Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital (Fall)
  • 15.4331 Financial Markets (Fall)
  • 15.4341 Advance Corporate Finance (Fall)
  • 15.4371 Options and Future Markets (Spring)
  • 15.4381 Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives (Spring)
  • 15.4451 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Private Equity (Spring)

Topics in Finance:  
(minimum of five subjects between Core Electives in Finance and Topics in Finance)

  • 15.436 Corporate Financial Strategy (Fall)
  • 15.446 Public versus Private Capital Markets (Spring)
  • 15.450 Analytics of Finance (Fall)
  • 15.456 Financial Engineering (Fall)
  • 15.457 Advanced Analytics of Finance (Fall)
  • 15.458 Financial Data Science and Computing (Spring)
  • 15.465 Alphanomics: A New Approach to Security Analysis (Spring)
  • 15.466 Functional and Strategic Finance (Spring)
  • 15.467 Asset Management, Lifecycle Investing, and Retirement Finance (Spring)
  • 15.481 Financial Market Dynamics and Human Behavior (Spring)
  • 15.482 Healthcare Finance
  • 15.483 Consumer Finance and FinTech (Fall)
  • 15.492 Blockchain, Crypto Finance, & Money (half subject. Spring)
  • 15.497 FinTech Ventures (Fall)         
  • 15.5181 Taxes and Business Strategy (Spring)
  • 15.521 Accounting Information for Decision Makers (half subject. Fall and Spring)
  • 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements (Spring and Fall)
  • 15.S08 Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance (Fall)
  • 15.S16 Disrupting Wholesale Finance: The Rise of Alternative Firms and What’s Next? (half subject. Spring)

Non Finance Courses:  
(maximum of two Non Finance courses)

  • 15.053    Optimization Methods in Business Analytics (Spring)
  • 15.7611    Introduction to Operations Management (Spring)
  • 15.8141    Marketing Innovation (Spring)
  • 15.9001    Competitive Strategy (Spring)
  • 15.301    People, Teams, and Organizations Laboratory (Fall)
  • 15.310    People, Teams, and Organizations (Fall)
  • 15.312    Organizational Processes for Business Analytics (no longer being offered)